St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-03
What St. Paul Men Say.

| L Ho IOlloWluS are The opinions OF clll-
zens who were asked for an opinion yes
terday, who, though they had no hesita-
ton in commencing the decision of the
| U. S. supreme court, were rather reluc-
tant in saying whether the men should
be hung as they are not fully acquainted
1 with the evidence presented at the
| trial:
Judge Hickman think the decision of
have been otherwise. l think they ought to
| be hung, or any other man who Wilfully in
| cites to murder. i do not anticipate any
trouble at Chicago
Aid. W. II. Sanborn-The U. S. court was
| right There was no error to admit of carry
| ing 1t to that court. / cannot say whether
they should be hung or not, as l know moth
| ing of the evidence
E. s. Thompson think the decision was
| one that every fair minded lawyer had rea-
| son to expect. | am not even in favor of
trying these fellows. Though it's getting
quite wintry now, I'm an advocate of sum-
| mary methods.
E. H. Ozmun-I think the decision of the
court was eminently just and that the men
should hang.
Mr.. Ingersoll-The decision is one in strict
compliance with the law and if guilty they
should hang.
| o. E. Holman-The decision was perfectly
| Just and as 1t should be. To protect society
these sort of men should be hanged. The
case never should have gone to the United
| States court.
F. G. Baker-The decision could not have
! been otherwise. When the case was con-
cluded in Chicago, made up my mind that
there was not the shadow of a ground for
| carrying il to the q. S. court The men
| should hang by all means
II. c. McCartey-I could not expect the U.
| s. court to interfere after the supreme court
| OF the state had passed upon it. However, 1
| hope something may occur to prevent the
men from being hanged.
F. G. Bohri-The decision could not have
| been otherwise, although / am not satisfied
that all of these men should or will hang. No
| one knows just what lies in she heart of
| Gov. Oglesby. terrible pressure will be
brought to bear upon him. However. the
law is very strict as regards petitions for COM
mutations of sentence. They must come di-
rect from the prisoner himself, and of course
If they stick to their cry, Liberty or DEATH
why, no such petitions will be made and the
governor will have no chance to act How
ever, the friends of these men will push
these petitions for all they are worth /
don't care what the papers say, there is going
to be terrible excitement over the affair in
Chicago and much trouble.
r. X. Boney-Mr. fuckers previous inter-
pretat1onS of the constitution We're that
amendments to it were limits to the power of
the federal government. The granting of
that writ would have established a precedent
by which every criminal who had little
money could have his case reviewed by the
United States supreme court. The state su-
preme court is sufficient to decide the case of
all criminals
j. F. Fitzpatrick-The refusal of the United
States court to grant the writ was undoubt-
edly right, and the state supreme court was
the supreme judicial power. The United
States court had no appellate Jurisdiction in
the case. There is one thing. that don't
understand The efforts of the anarchists
and their counsel to procure reversal of the
death sentence, are entirely inconsistent
with, anarchal doctrines They are trying
to take advantage of every legal technically
which the most astute lawyers in the country
can discover. In system, the law which
they affect to despise, they have used all
their energies to overthrow.
ID. ID. Merrill-Leniency in a case of this
kind begets anarchy. do not see where our
safety lies if such men are not removed
State Treasurer Bobleter-They ought to
hang.
Adjt. Gen. Seeley-Good for the supreme
court. Now let us hope that GOV. Ogiesby
will not interfere.
Eli WarnerI guess nobody will kick on
the decision.
Col. j. X. Moore-The anarchists ought to
hang.
Insurance Commissioner Shandrew-I am
proud of the supreme court of the United
States. There has been too much delay al
ready, though the supreme court ought to be
gwen credit for its prompt action. i do not
believe there will be any trouble in Chicago
on the day of the hanging. If there should
be there will be large number of people in
Cn1cdSO WHO are Wiling 10 nelp SuuelCh aDy
riotOus demonstration.
Deputy Clerk Helm-I'm glad to hear that
the court sustained the decision of the Hi
nois court
District Attorney George N. Baxter-I al
ways thought the appeal to the supreme
court was great big attempt to keep the an
archists from being hung.
S. L. Pierce-Its just this way with me: I
don't like to see man hung, but wouldn't
like to see those fellows get off, From a
legal standpoint, never did think the SUI
preme court could have done otherwise
United States Senator C. X. Davis-I've
just heard of it. l thought it would come
out that way.
Thomas Ryan-Erwin thought it would
come out as it has. When you get the opinion |
you will see that the matter was decided in
1886 in the Nef case by Chief Justice Mar
shall. The same decision was given by Judge |
Miller in the famous slaughter house cases |
from New Orleans. It is on what is called |
due process of law. The supreme court |
simply refuses. to have anything to do with |
the question of state righth It's the same |
old thing as in the decision of 1886.
Judge William Louis Kelly--I was in hopes |
that they would take up that Illinois law and |
sustain it, for then it would stop al, this in
fernal wrangling.
Otto Keufner-Oh, don't know much
about it, but think it's all right You can't |
tell much about it until you have all the pro-
ceedings before you, but the way the papers
report it, it is undoubtedly good law. You
see they didn't have to review the whole
case. 1t was simply constitutional ques-
ton.
H. j. Horn-I thought it would be so.
G. n. Bell-Im loyal to the supreme court.
G. d. O'Brien-It's all right. If the SUI
preme court should have asserted jurisdic-
tion over this case, you might as well wipe
out all state judiciary.
for complaint said Representative Edmund
Rice, 'they have been given fair trial and
condemned for violating the law of the land
If heroic treatment had been resorted to at
Chicago i'll dealing with these anarchist five
or six years ago there would have been no
Haymarket riot; but no, the authorities al
lowed these people to have their own way so
long that they became defiant and thought
punishment would not be meted out to them
no matter what act of violence they
might perpetrate Men of the worst
stripe ought to be jugged as soon
as they begin to preach the doctrine of an
archy, violence and ruin, and that would
have been my course if the problem had been
presented for my consideration. | remem
Der on one occasion when l was mayor Of
this city committee came to me i'll the in
terest of Johann Most, who wanted to lee
ture here. 1t was suggested that should
to purse to guarantee his ex
penses, but | promptly Informed the COM
mittee that l would subscribe for halter for
Most but would not in any way encourage
him or permit him to preach his doctrine of
anarchy in st. Paul while l was it's mayor.
If the same course had been pursued at Chi
cagO there would nave Deen no necessity Tor |
an execution at that place the 11th of this
month";
Adjutant General Thomas NJ. Vincent, U.
s. A.-The decision of the supreme court
was eminently just and proper and it will be
a notice served upon anarchists and social
lists abroad that America is not the place pict-
ured to them, where the laws can be vic
lated with impunity. The execution of the
anarchists at Chicago will be an ex-
ample that will be needed where
less forcible measures might not avail
This anarchistic doctrine is not thing of
to-day, but has been steadily increasing, but
within the past ten years. An in
cident that occurred in Washington, in 1877
think it was, at any rate during the fire that
partly destroyed the patent Office building,
will illustrate this. One of my neighbors